The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre
(CCCCC) is coordinating regional efforts in applying PRECIS to the Caribbean through the UK Met Office
Hadley Centre, INSMET (Cuba) and University of West Indies (Barbados and Jamaica), and has been sharing its
experiences with the Central American regions through CATHALAC. CCCCC also undertakes capacity building
through regional and national trainings.

Frontier Research Center for Global Change (FRCGC) of
the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) has developed a 20 km horizontal
resolution global atmospheric model using the Earth Simulator in order to project regionally-detailed
climate conditions such as: increased strength of typhoons and hurricanes, extreme weather events (e.g.
droughts, heat and cold waves) and diurnal precipitation change. This has been applied to a number of
adaptation studies in the Caribbean and Latin America.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) TGICA provides climate modelling, scenarios and downscaling; a comprehensive archive of
variables which are relevant to impact and adaptation work from IPCC climate change projections, and user
support to ensure proper use of data, including through three Data Distribution Centres (BADC (UK), DKRZ
(Germany) and CIESIN (USA).

The Met Office Hadley Centre has been
producing detailed climate scenarios using the PRECIS tool for the main developing country regions. Their
activities include:

basic capacity building and technology transfer via scientific and technical support for installing
and applying PRECIS to scenario development in the region, ad hoc advice on using scenarios in impacts
assessments, and engaging regional climate centres into a process of sharing experiences, financial
resources and results.

The PRECIS-Caribbean initiative provides high-resolution climate projections that have been made
available online by INSMET.

The United Nations Development Program is
downscaling GCMs to generate country-level adaptation profiles of past and future climate trends, using
MAGIC/SCENGEN scenarios. Results have been made available in a stand-alone publication and through the
adaptation learning mechanism, some preliminary results have been used for case studies as part of the HDR
2007/2008.

USAID have developed the SERVIR tool which
maps long-term global climate projections as well as historical data at regional scales and below. USAID
havealso establisheda SERVIR hub for Africa.

the Central Valley Biological Assessment 2030 time horizon for addressing impacts to fish
populations in California;

reconciling projections of future Colorado River Stream Flow, with the goal of conveying to policy
and decision maker the nature of the uncertainties associated with the information being provided;
downscaling projections of Indian monsoon rainfall using a statistical method (nonhomogeneous hidden
Markov model).

The United States also supports capacity building exercises, including through better educating
future users of climate information and decision-makers as well as enhancing regional cooperation.

The World Climate Research Program supports research
for improved climate predictions and understanding of human influence on climate, and creates scientific
knowledge to assess the impacts of climate change and variability. They have organized global model runs
for all IPCC assessments (e.g. PCMDI archive) with open access for use for climate science and regional
projections (WG 1) and impact assessments (WG 2 & 3). They also conduct training seminars and workshops
on the use of model outputs and seasonal forecasting.